"All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my closeup"

Ok, so everybody now knows about Renishaw Hall & Gardens part in the new ITV series 'Country House Sunday'. If you don't you obviously haven't liked our Facebook page (see me later!). The series is 21 episodes featuring 3 country houses. Renishaw is to to be the highlight of 7 of these programmes. The first episode aired on Sunday, 21st April so if you missed it, it was a Renishaw programme and its available on the ITV player for 28 days from broadcast.

The filming took place over 2 separate weeks. The first filming in the cafe happened about 3 days after we got back from holiday and boy were we jet-lagged. It was made really easy by the crew from TwoFour Productions who were fabulous. Very laid back and friendly. Of course it helped that we were feeding them all week.

On the Monday of the second week of filming Lynda Bellingham, the show's presenter, arrived. She is lovely and very good at her job. From the moment we met her she was friendly and reassuring which all went towards making the filming so much easier to do.

When I was young I really thought that Mrs James Herriot had the perfect life and that's what I wanted to be, a vets wife, just like Lynda Bellingham! Strange isn't it how things turn out.

Needless to say we are at work when the show is aired and do not have recording facilities at home. The thing is, I don't need to know how many pounds the camera adds, I can guess - so please be gentle with me.